Wednesday, November 7, 2018

The Great Wall of California: Berkeley Mystery Walls



There is a wall that stretched 50 miles long in California. It stretches from Berkley to San Jose. It is made of rocks and boulders stacked upon each other, in some places and some of the boulders weigh a ton. Some places are five feet tall, but it at most isn't very tall. It had breaks in it that go on for meters to half a mile in some places. It even leads up or from a mysterious stone circle and the wall spirals for 200 feet and encircles a large boulder.

It's not known why the wall was originally built or who had built it or if it had served any real purpose at all. It wasn't tall enough for defensive purposes and sometimes the layout of the wall is inaccessible and unusual places. It could be possible that it has some sort of religious affiliation originally, but that is all lost now. 

Some theorize that maybe it wasn't Native American's who formed it. Some think that it could have been early missionaries who created it or even Mongolians who settled in the area may have created. In reality, we may never find out who created the wall and for what purposes, but it's a beautiful ancient site to see. 

SOURCES:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/berkeley-mystery-walls
https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/11/23/bay-area-facts-berkeley-mystery-walls-origins-not-so-off-the-wall/
http://www.ancientpages.com/2015/10/28/mystery-of-great-wall-of-california-an-ancient-unsolved-enigma/

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